An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the ClergyJ. Townsend, 1856 - 206 pages |
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Page 88 - And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.
Page 75 - A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world. And ye now therefore have sorrow: but I will see you again, and your heart shall rejoice, and your joy no man taketh from you.
Page 56 - O GOD, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee ; mercifully grant that thy HOLY SPIRIT may in all things direct and rule our hearts, through JESUS CHRIST our Lord.
Page 183 - But when he had turned about, and looked on his disciples, he "rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, 'Satan ; for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.
Page 139 - But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
Page 64 - I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Page 194 - But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
Page 131 - For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.
Page 127 - no man knoweth the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son revealeth him...
Page 178 - The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the falling together; and a little child shall lead them.